Exploring Predictive Factors for Potentially Avoidable Emergency Department Transfers: Findings From the FINE Study.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of potentially avoidable transfers (PAT) and identify factors associated with these transfers to emergency departments (EDs) among nursing home (NH) residents.

Design: This is a secondary outcome analysis of the FINE study, a multicenter observational study collecting data on NH residents, NH settings, and contextual factors of ED transfers.

Settings And Participants: NHs in the former Midi-Pyrénées region of the southwest of France (n = 312); a total of 1037 NH residents who experienced ED transfers (n = 1017) between January 2016 and December 2016.

Mobile health in the specific management of first-episode psychosis: a systematic literature review.

Purpose: The purpose of this systematic literature review is to assess the therapeutic efficacy of mobile health methods in the management of patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP).

Method: The participants are patients with FEP. The interventions are smartphone applications.

[From Kraepelin to McGorry: Scientific Vision and Experiential Narrative around a Major Paradigmatic Shift].

Objectives Until the early 1990s, a pessimistic view of psychotic disorders, based on the Kraepelinian perspective, prevailed. Early intervention then introduced a new paradigm, approaching psychosis as a more dynamic phenomenon, for which recovery is possible, provided an appropriate approach is used. As this paradigm has not penetrated all fields of psychiatry, professionals starting in early intervention sometimes experience a real culture shock, the objective of this article being to map its contours in order to facilitate this transition.

Factors Associated with Potentially Inappropriate Transfer to the Emergency Department among Nursing Home Residents.

Objectives: To determine the factors associated with the potentially inappropriate transfer of nursing home (NH) residents to emergency departments (EDs) and to compare hospitalization costs before and after transfer of individuals addressed inappropriately vs those addressed appropriately.

Design: Multicenter, observational, case-control study.

Setting And Participants: 17 hospitals in France, 1037 NH residents.

[Emergency departments and psychiatry].

Psychiatric care is becoming an increasingly important part of general emergency departments. Historically incorporated into the psychiatric hospital, emergency mental health care has since been moved to the general hospital. This move was intended to boost the accessibility and deinstitutionalisation of psychiatry.